Youssou N’Dour
Youssou N’Dour (born October 1, 1959, Dakar, Senegal), aged 66, is a Senegalese singer, composer and politician. Best-known releases include Egypt, Immigrés and The Guide (Wommat). N’Dour's honours include Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album, Prince Claus Award and Polar Music Prize.
Youssou N’Dour’s zodiac sign is Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Pig, with 
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Youssou N’Dour’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Strategist
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
Youssou’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 5
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Youssou, according to the stars
Core essence
Youssou makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Youssou is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Youssou wants to be loved
Youssou wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Youssou and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Youssou creates
How Youssou makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Youssou creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Youssou is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Youssou is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Youssou fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Youssou's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Youssou N’Dour's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 1, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Earth Pig
Earth PigTrusts easily. Rarely regrets it.
Youssou N’Dour was born on October 1, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Youssou N’Dour's birth date, October 1, 1959, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Youssou’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Youssou N’Dour's date-only chart is Venus trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Youssou N’Dour combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Strategist.
Youssou’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Youssou N’Dour, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 1° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableVenustrineSaturn0.2° to 0.4° orb
Youssou’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° orb
Youssou’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.7° to 1.7° orb
Youssou’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextileUranus1.0° to 2.6° orb
Youssou’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareJupiter2.0° to 2.1° orb
Youssou’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMarssextileUranus2.7° to 3.3° orb
Youssou’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto3.6° to 3.9° orb
Youssou’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturntrinePluto4.0° orb
Youssou’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussextileNeptune4.2° to 4.5° orb
Youssou’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.6° orb
Youssou’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersquarePluto5.7° to 5.9° orb
Youssou’s growth grinds against their depths.
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 12.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Youssou’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 23°12′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Youssou making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 3°58′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Youssou is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosScorpio 18°47′ (moves 0.66° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Youssou is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaLeo 15°08′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Youssou at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 5°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Youssou that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.4°
- Eros square Uranus 0.9°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.1°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 2.1°
- Ceres square Venus 2.7°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.8°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Youssou’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 4 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Youssou is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Youssou’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.4°
- Mercury quintile Saturn 1.1°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.6°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Youssou N’Dour, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Born in Pig years
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Youssou’s cards
Every card is computed from October 1, 1959, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Youssou N’Dour, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Youssou’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q210734, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Kotoviski photograph by Henryk Kotowski, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Youssou N’Dour at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Youssou N’Dour’s chart
- How old is Youssou N’Dour?
- Youssou N’Dour is 66 years old, born October 1, 1959 in Dakar, Senegal.
- What zodiac sign is Youssou N’Dour?
- Youssou N’Dour is a Libra: born October 1, 1959, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig.
- What is Youssou N’Dour's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 1, 1959 birth.
- What time was Youssou N’Dour born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Youssou N’Dour's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the October 1, 1959 birth date.
- What is Youssou N’Dour's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 1, 1959 birth date.
- Where is Youssou N’Dour's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Youssou N’Dour's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
